I remember this! It's an example of what people are supposed to do when they work for the man. They do whatever it takes to benefit the stockholders. Back in the '70's, the fellow who introduced the world to really effective, if not environmentally household cleansers, namely "409," learned by some urreptitious means that Proctor and Gamble (his main competitor) was test marketing their competing product, also quite new at the time, in, among other places, Denver. About two weeks before the test was to begin, he offered a free 1/2-gallon refill bottle along with his normal spray bottle of 409. The result, off course, was that everybody who used 409, and some who hadn't yet, bought, and stocked up on, that "free offer" of the extran 6-month supply of 409. Consequently, sales of "Fantastic" were not good at all, thereby delaying P&G's introduction of their product by a couple of years. That's what we pay these senior decision-makers for, folks. They try to figure out how to get the other guy out of the way. They try to find legal ways to slit his proverbial, if not literal, throat. I don't know how seriously one should take this particular writeup, as it's looking pretty immature to me, like it's pretty bogus, but these youngsters can't write worth a sh*t these days, so who knows? Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Battle" <frustum(a)pacbell.net> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 9:50 PM Subject: Re: Nuke Redmond!